Keynotes & Conferences
Work that inspired individuals, industries, and ideas
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The Wonder of We at Offbeat Sparks – a five-minute finale that changed the room Stockholm, Sweden · 2025 🇸🇪
Sometimes five minutes is enough to change the feeling in a room. A carefully crafted closing moment, full of insight, laughter and a sprinkle of wonder, that sent people home with something they hadn't arrived with.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Abracademy
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The Mqgic within L&D at Learning Conference – keynote for 500 professionals Stockholm, Sweden · September 2024 🇸🇪
500 learning and development leaders gathered to explore how to design experiences that truly inspire and engage. Together we uncovered the conditions for impactful moments, sparking curiosity, igniting passion and demonstrating that the magic within L&D is not a metaphor. It is a method.
500 attendees.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Abracademy
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Leadership Horizon Conference – AI and magic Vienna, Austria · May 2024 🇦🇹
The rise of AI makes human skills more urgent, not less. At the Leadership Horizon Conference, we explored how leaders can hold Human Intelligence, AI and Ecological Intelligence in productive tension, giving 200 international practitioners a framework and a feeling for what that actually looks like in practice.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Abracademy
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The Magic Within at Kungsbacka Municipality – 700 ideas from 500 leaders Stockholm, Sweden · September 2024 🇸🇪
700 innovative ideas generated in a single session. Designed and delivered for 500 managers and leaders, the workshop invited participants to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, unlocking collective creativity at a scale that surprised even the room.
700 ideas generated across 500 leaders.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Abracademy
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Dare to Flourish at CreativeMornings Stockholm – a keynote on creativity, play and joy Stockholm, Sweden · May 2024 🇸🇪
Learn from my career journey and expertise in design, facilitation, and learning as I unveil the magic of infusing your life with vibrance, playfulness, and joy. Discover the secrets for igniting your own inner spark and embracing a life brimming with energy, creativity, and limitless potential.
Team: Jenny Theolin
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Dare to Collaborate at STHLM Experience Conference – a live game show about teamwork Stockholm, Sweden · 2023 🇸🇪
A 15-minute live game show that turned a conference stage into a practical demonstration of facilitation and collaboration, tackling the question every leader sits with: how do you create an environment where people feel genuinely free to contribute? The audience left with an answer and a feeling.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Balloon Volunteers
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Dare to Freelance at Berghs – inspiring 150 students to back themselves Stockholm, Sweden · 2024 🇸🇪
150 students left with a mindset shift and a toolkit. Shared my career journey and the art of transforming setbacks into opportunities, then facilitated a self-coaching Business of 1 workshop and crowdsourced a live facilitation resource with the students themselves. Proof that a room can be both the content and the method.
150 students.
Team: Jenny Theolin
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The Art of Belonging at ODA Women in Tech – keynote for 1,400 at Oslo Concert Hall Oslo Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway · 2022 🇳🇴
1,400 people in a concert hall, and every one of them involved. An interactive keynote on belonging at work: the state of it, the value of it and the very real cost of its absence. Closed with a Human Thunderstorm that turned 1,400 attendees into one breathing, responding room.
1,400 attendees at Oslo Concert Hall.
Team: Jenny Theolin
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STHLM Experience Conference at Zington – moderating a full hybrid conference day Stockholm, Sweden · 2022 🇸🇪
Moderated a full hybrid conference day celebrating World Usability Day, 12 Lightning Talks, one Keynote, six Workshops and a Digital Hybrid Mingle running in parallel, all held together by facilitation that made the complexity feel effortless.
Team: Jenny Theolin
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Designing by Making at CreativeMornings Gothenburg – a keynote on craft and co-creation Gothenburg, Sweden · June 2018 🇸🇪
A talk that refused to be just a talk. For CreativeMornings Gothenburg's Craft theme, invited the audience to co-create the presentation itself, producing a giant collage on five metres of paper in the twenty minutes before the keynote began, then photographed it into a live slide deck. A demonstration that designing by making is not a method. It is a mindset.
Team: Jenny Theolin
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She Says Stockholm – keynote at the launch of a global creative network Stockholm, Sweden · 2016 🇸🇪
One of four keynote speakers at the Stockholm launch of She Says, the global network supporting women in the creative industries.
A milestone evening that brought the network to Scandinavia for the first time.
Team: Jenny Theolin
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Mindset. Methods. Magic. – London Metropolitan University & University of Hertfordshire London & Hatfield, October 2019 🇬🇧
An alumna returned to the institutions that shaped her to share what two decades in design had actually taught her. Delivered across two consecutive days as part of The Cass Visual Communication Talk Series, this keynote for design students explored how to navigate complexity through design — moving through mindset, method, and the harder-to-name quality that separates good work from memorable work.
Part of The Cass Visual Communication Talk Series 2019–20. Presented at The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University, and the University of Hertfordshire.
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Arwidsson Talks – producing an international conference from scratch Stockholm, Sweden · 2018 + 2019 🇸🇪
Produced an international, interdisciplinary conference from scratch, twice. Arwidsson Talks brought together researchers, policymakers, architects, artists, developers and politicians to push forward thinking on inclusive, healthy and happy cities. The kind of conference that earns its existence by putting the right people in the same room.
Team: Jenny Theolin + Parasol Projects + WiklundWiklund + Ulla Kassius + Moa Möller
